History does not like the witness who snoozes, and she will always remind the world in a similar way that what should go will definitely go, and what should come will come. There are not too many coincidences in history, behind similar scenes, there are the same hegemony, the same struggle, the same people's hearts, the same victories and the same defeats.
The Vietnam War witnessed China and the United States move from confrontation to cooperation, and the Afghanistan War witnessed China and the United States move from cooperation to confrontation.
The United States after World War II had more than half of the wealth of the capitalist world, and today the United States has a debt of $29 trillion that is due and difficult to repay. In the Empire Cemetery, not only the lives of more than 2,400 American servicemen were buried, but also $2.26 trillion in wealth. After the war, the United States and Britain created an iron curtain to divide the world in order to prevent the collapse of the original world colonial system, the liberation of the colonial countries, and prevent them from exploring the path of independent development.
Under the impact of the post-war national liberation upsurge, the original colonial model of plantations and opium dumping was obviously not suitable for the needs of the development of the times. Although the church schools established by Stuart Leiden in China were completely banned by the new China, the new system of religion promoted by the colonizers around the world has not been liquidated.
In the past 20 years, has the United States given Afghanistan a democratic society?
Just look at the situation of the President of Afghanistan. What kind of person is Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, who left behind his supporters and the army to flee? Ashraf Ghani was born in 1949 to a Pashtun family in Logar Province, Afghanistan, and later received a doctorate from Columbia University in the United States.
Ashraf Ghani has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University, served at the United Nations and the World Bank, and led post-war reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan with World Bank officials. Ghani also served as an adviser to Karzai and in 2002 became Minister of Finance in Karzai's Transitional Government. He was elected President of Afghanistan in 2014. Obviously, this is a "democratic president" who conforms to Western values and interests, and is in line with democratic procedures. Is the country led by such a president a democracy? Does it have the support of the majority of the people at the bottom?
Ghani's Afghan government is limited to Kabul and large and medium-sized cities in Afghanistan, while in the vast mountainous areas, the Taliban and local warlords are the real government.
What left with Ghani was "four truckloads of cash that could not be loaded in a helicopter", which is the president's true values. He knows better than anyone that on the road to escape in the future, in the Western world, far from his homeland, only wealth is the real power.
The closest cooperation with the Ghani government is the US military stationed in Afghanistan, with 3,000 translators.
This is a time-space reproduction of the magical scene 80 years ago, Pu Yi, the two devils and Taijun.
In the global co-prosperity circle dominated by the United States, only the slave owners of the suzerainty and the comprador elites of the colonies are co-prosperous.
Those at the bottom of society will forever be left to live in the atrocities and terror of the occupying forces.
As a small country, from the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, to the United States, the Afghans have never really enjoyed independence, democracy and freedom, they are the graveyard of empires and colonies of the great powers.
Many people like to talk about Afghanistan in the Zahir era, thinking that the sixties and seventies of the last century were the golden age of Afghanistan. In fact, this view is superficial.
Zahir, the last king of the Barak dynasty of Afghanistan, studied in France, and during his reign he pushed through reforms, allowing women to be educated, and creating a constitution that greatly absorbed Western culture. At that time, most of the high-ranking government officials in the Afghan government had master's or doctoral degrees, and it was the norm for government officials to wear suits.
The Barak dynasty was originally a product of semi-colonization, and the Westernization of the aristocracy, elites and big cities was the norm of the globalization of the colonial system, but the image of the Afghan elite in the Zahir era was more in line with our values and institutional aesthetics today. In Shanghai in the 20s and 30s of the last century, a large number of historical relics that met the "modern aesthetics" could also be found. Given Afghanistan's strategic location, it is not easy for it to avoid the attention of world hegemons, so this ostensible change in line with Western values will be used more for propaganda.
Outside the elite, outside the big cities, in the remote mountainous areas, rural areas, and tribes, people still adhere to the traditional culture and traditional way of life.
The true prosperity and strength of a country is a comprehensive and thorough social transformation, and a true integration of tradition and reality.
Kemal's success lay not in the social changes modeled on the West, but in the restoration of semi-colonial Turkey into a sovereign and independent state, and he carried out thorough and in-depth reforms in almost all fields such as politics, military, education, and industry, and succeeded in the turbulent pattern of the world at that time. But in the longer historical cycle, Kemal has preserved Turkey and alienated Turkey, is the country he preserved still Turkey? This is exactly the problem Erdogan faces, and Turkey today seems to want to use the method of "Turkicization" to return to renew its history and civilization.
In China, this kind of change is more typical, the modernization of a country is not only the modernization of the political system, science and technology, industry, national defense, education, and aesthetics, but also the modernization of culture, which is the continuation of the roots of tradition and modern civilization.
History and reality have proven that Western democracy cannot save the Soviet Union, China, Iran, Afghanistan, or even itself.
Equating Western civilization with modern civilization is the biggest misunderstanding of the two concepts of modernity and civilization.
Western civilization is the Western manifestation of modern civilization, it is a manifestation of modern civilization, but this manifestation of civilization is not the only one, nor can it be the only one. Its modernity is confined to the technical level, and in turn, because the technological modernity obscures its barbaric backwardness at the cultural and institutional level.
In the West, after stealing the technological achievements of Chinese civilization, under the acceleration of the struggle for hegemony among the great powers, it has achieved technological superiority for a long time, which is also the basis for its global hegemony.
At the institutional level, due to the blessing of civilization genes and technology, he interprets the success at the technical level as the success at the institutional level, and then regards this system as a monotheistic religion of the system. At this point, it is no longer a question of the system itself, but of faith.
Faith is about interests, and in this belief system, the beliefs and interests of the slave owners of the suzerainty and the colonial comprador elite are unified. In the countries and regions covered by the Western colonial system, the opposition of interests will inevitably lead to the division and confrontation of beliefs.
In secular society, this is the contradiction between universal axiologists and revolutionaries. In a religious society, this is a contradiction between the old and the new faiths.
There is often a misconception about the Taliban that they are all terrorists. But how can there be any unchanging people and things in the world? Osama bin Laden was originally a troublemaker who was single-handedly cultivated by the United States against the Soviet Union. Heaven is good for reincarnation, and in the end, this trouble is rewarded by the United States itself. If bin Laden's position can be fundamentally changed, why should the Taliban be viewed from a static point of view?
Religion is their tradition and culture, the form of organization and the mode of fighting of the colonized peoples, the normal state of history, and the product of the inadequate development of civilization.
Before the monotheistic religion of Western system and democracy was imported and influenced, Afghanistan in the long course of history, although there were many wars, more often than not, the peaceful coexistence of various ethnic groups in Central Asia.
As true revolutionaries and liberators, the Afghan Taliban have given the world a witness to what it means to fight, and it has also given the country a chance to make a real difference and truly take control of its own destiny.
They grew up in their own land, and it doesn't matter if they have never seen the world, or because their religion is ignorant and backward. But at least they are not lackeys of the West, not social elites who are superstitious about the religion of Western institutions. They have the broadest mass base, and you can't preconceive of them by Marxist-Leninist standards, because that is not in line with Afghanistan's national conditions and the law of social development.
The Taliban seized power through religious wars and lost power under the blows of the new crusades. After two decades of dormancy and development, the Taliban have made a comeback, and their success depends on whether they have achieved their own liberation and modernization.
There are many people who talk about the Taliban's past religious policies and the blowing up of the Bamiyan Buddhas, and they see the reality, but they don't see the reason.
The Taliban emerged in the post-Cold War era, when most of the world's national liberation movements had ended, and due to historical reasons, there were still many countries and nations that had not yet achieved their own liberation, and their national liberation movements were more radical due to the balance of power and changes in the international form.
Extreme religion is the embodiment of ultra-nationalism, which arises from the historical and social environment of national oppression and colonial rule.
Extremist religiosity is a named concept, not created in a vacuum. When the ancient kingdom of Persia was swallowed up by raging Islam, it chose the weakest Shia as its faith, and in this way it guaranteed its independence.
The Taliban came out of the same logic: after hundreds of years of colonial rule, when the political, economic and cultural invasion of the West was pervasive, they needed to use another organizational system and value system to ensure the independence and continuation of their local civilization. When the invasion of foreign civilizations becomes more intense and deeper, the contradiction between the two becomes more antagonistic.
Before learning Xi more advanced revolutionary theories, and before integrating advanced revolutionary theories with one's own revolutionary practice and exploring a revolutionary road that suits oneself. They can only find solutions in their own traditions and cultures. They have completed their organization and theoretical construction through religious means, but they are constrained by the narrowness, ignorance and extremism of religion.
In this respect, the self-proclaimed civilized Western colonizers were the ultra-nationalists who exported terror, killing almost all the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas and Australia, and selling and using Africans as cattle. Countless peoples were wiped out by them, and countless civilizations disappeared under the guns and germs of the colonizers.
For the sake of their own interests, the anti-human group led by the United States has called China, North Korea, Russia and Iran evil countries, and colonized, exploited and killed human civilization.
If there is any one of the largest fundamentalist groups in the world, the biggest terrorists are the Western bloc led by the United States and their new crusades of colonial hegemony.
The Taliban in Afghanistan are the liberators of their country. For too long, the propaganda tool has been in the hands of Western powers and elite governments, and the Taliban have not even had a chance to justify themselves without victory or gaining a voice.
In the past, Afghanistan was a nominal country with troops stationed by foreign powers and warlords, and there was no reunification, no peace, and no construction, so naturally there could be no development.
Today, the world's largest terrorist is holding on to its colonialism.
The greatest contradiction has disappeared, the historical mission of liberating the colonized and their agents has been accomplished, and extremism has lost its basis for existence. The next step is to build a new country governed by the Afghans.
The colonial order is not the only model of globalization, it is just a monotheistic order of slave owners who are exclusively self-interested and unprofitable. In addition, there is a community with a shared future for mankind, as well as good-neighborliness, friendship and win-win cooperation.
Kabul means "hub of trade" in the local language, and it was once a thriving commercial hub on the Silk Road.
The country is unified, the power is unified, and the biggest infrastructure is not roads and bridges, but great unification, which is the desire of the people.
Afghanistan will eventually die silent, and it will soon become the busiest mine and construction site in the world, and we look forward to the early recovery of the country that hosted the ancient Silk Road.